Tropical Food Gardens: A guide to growing fruit, herbs and vegetables organically in Australia

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Tropical Food Gardens: A guide to growing fruit, herbs and vegetables organically in Australia
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Leonie Norrington
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 241,Width 173
Category/GenreGrowing fruit and vegetables
Herbs
ISBN/Barcode 9781876473419
ClassificationsDewey:635.0913
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomings Books Pty Ltd
Imprint Bloomings Books Pty Ltd
Publication Date 1 September 2011
Publication Country Australia

Description

This book blends horticultural science with personal experience to create a book full of sound advice, enthusiasm and a genuine love of the natural world. Have you ever wondered how to grow such exotic vegetables as snake beans, water chestnuts and loofahs? Luscious fruits such as rambutants, mangoes, carambolas, abiu? Herbs like vanilla, turmeric and galangal? The book will show you how to propagate, grow and use these and a wide range of other herbs, vegetables and fruits in tropical and sub-tropical climates, ranging from Darwin to Sydney.

Author Biography

Leonie Norrington was born in Darwin, Australia, and grew up on an Aboriginal community south of Katherine. She is a third generation tropical gardener and learned to garden at her grandmother's knee when the only fresh food available was home grown. Leonie works full-time as a journalist-writer. She is known to local gardeners through editing and publishing the magazine Greenants and Gravel. She has three grown-up children and one grandchild and lives with her husband at Noonamah on their farm where they have grown fruit, vegetables and herbs for twenty years.